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Hostel not Hotel,don't go there. - Review of Velazquez

Hostel not Hotel,don't go there.

This place was full of Spanish youths, (Students I assumed),for the weekend. More like a youth hostel than a hotel. Rooms were very basic, not very clean,hand basin in bathroom insecure, no fridge, TV all Spanish channels.The air con was restricted to times governed by management. Went for one breakfast, just had an orange drink (warm), and a cuppa. Very limited choice with no chance of an English breakfast, seemed to cater mainly for the Spaniards, Went for one evening meal at 7pm, all food on display yet restaraunt not open until 7.30pm, returned at 7.30pm, food not labelled had to guess what most of it was, very little choice in the end, what I did get I ended up leaving as it was barely warm. Told that the food was not cooked on the premises,why I don't know. Went out to eat that night. The all inclusive in this place finished at 10pm not that we bothered with the bar, hardly a soul in it, was told you had to search for barstaff most of the time. Checked out after finding alternative hotel, wouid'nt give this place 2 stars let alone 3. Its 2 sister hotels,adjacent ,are closed, speaks volumes if you ask me.More

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Stayed: June 2010, travelled with family

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Have been in this hotel within last year, and i dont recommend anyone to stay in it, 1st, no one knows abt this hotel, and kept searching for it for more than 1 hour !2nd the hotel is not clean at all, the bathroom wasnt clean, 3rd i was in the 7th floor, and i felt like the balcony would fall in anytime4th we werent allowed to open the AC for more than 4 hours per day, and only for 2 hours in the morning, and 2 within night, and it was very hot there !!the only good thing, was the price, and definetly, i am going pay extra to get better next timeBTW, i didnt want to talk about food as well !

Stayed: June 2009, travelled with friends

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the velazquez hotel was the worst hotel we have ever stayed in!!!!our room was filthy.the beds were hard as rock with springs poking thru the mattress!!the wash basin in the bathroom was cracked and the toilet was coming away fom the floor!the handful of staff ignored us for the whole of our weeks stay and spoke very little english.and as for the food!!!it was lukewarm or cold no matter what time we went for our meal.nothing was labeled so most of the time we couldnt make out what we were eating!!!it is a spanish hotel for spanish people and it always seemed the few english people staying there were there under sufferace!!!the 6 or 7 english couples who were staying there all felt the same as us.you could never find the barman and when you did there was no vodka the coffee machine was broken and there was no gas for the beer!!!just what you need when your on holiday.the hill to the hotel is nearly vertical and is like climbing kilamanjaro!!!!we were only there for a week thank god,i couldnt have stood it for any longer than that!!!fawlty towers would have been a 5 star luxury hotel compared to the velazquez!!!!!the one consellation was the resort was lovely.....

Stayed: September 2009, travelled as a couple

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Good points - Clean room. Plenty of hot water.Bad points - No gas for draught beer for 3 nights. Ran out of Vodka. Some unattentive staff. Minging pool. Paid for half board but had to eat out most nights - Food not fit to feed pigs!Viv & Steve

Stayed: September 2009, travelled as a couple

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was booked into los pintores.arrived at 12.30 at night with a 15 year old and my sister. the hotel was closed and bus driver told us to go into el greco hotel opposite. we went in and were told that there were three hotels news to us. he then told us that we were not in this hotel but in another one up the hill.he would not show us were and we had to pull suitcase up hill and we went past the hotel and walked for 10 mins at 12.30 at night in a strange country lost thanks to a nice gentleman that showed us the way because the staff didnt care.the nightmare began.this is the worst hotel i have ever had the misfortune to stay in. the food was a disgrace two cereals and colds meats because the scrambled egg and fried eggs you could have beat them of the walls.the dinner always cold and not good.the food was poor. the staff were the rudest staff that i have ever come accross and no matter what you asked they shrugged their shoulders and looked at you as if you were from mars. you could not go outside to the pool area until 11am so to sunbathe you had to walk down the hill to go to the beach and coming uphill was awful in 35 degree heat.idont complain ever about hotels but this hotel should not even be open to the public as it is hazardous to your healthstay away

Stayed: August 2009, travelled with family

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This relates to the Velazquez Hotel Benalmadena. This hotel must rank as the worst in Spain. The food is awful, cool or cold. The choice is poor and do not expect to have anything like good quality because you will be disappointed. This hotel boasts air conditioned bedrooms but this is rationed by the management. Therefore, it is possible to start sleeping with aircon on and find by 3am that you need to open the doors to allow cool air to enter. When challenged the Reception stated that the aircon was on twice a day and that it was cool outside. Apart from the aspect of cheating customers from their entitlement, it is possible that the police or other competent authority will be interested in this misdescription. There is a pervasive smell of sewage throughout the complex and the drains have obviously failed. This is another reason to avoid this Group of hotels like the plague . I could also write about the broken shower control, the mould around the taps and the lack of hot water, but any reader will have the picture by now.

Stayed: July 2009, travelled on business

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